Haha! They buffed Hammer. She was already a great character to begin with but, nice to see (and i always picked Ambush. For my hit & run game).
Maybe I was unlucky, but I have negative winrate with Artanis in my team this season.
Becasue the slow ramps up way too fast so it would not be any difference if it was 70% or 50% You still get perma slowed and that is what people dont like. The ult itself takes up space you would be useing to escape.
Your only escape out of enemy lane is walking into quicksand that slows you too much if you stand in it for just 1 sec. And then you become easy targets for mages that wont have much troubble killing you.
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I donât really agree with their comment how Alex and WM struggled to compete with other healers, but always nice to see support role buffs. Too bad that Kharazim is once again completely forgotten. Johanna will continue to be one of better tanks primarily thanks to her efficient wave clear.
Omg hell yeah!! Itâs patch DAEEEEE! 
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Time will tell, but the nerfs were in the right direction, but I would say youâre still right not because she is op, but she is an easy to play tank with an overall solid kit.
lol they made Whitemane even more easier, shows that they donât want to revert it
and Anubâarak got buffed?
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They could have nerfed her pve dmg then or nerfed Eternal Retaliation like removing mana return on minion kills. That would have stopped her being an S tier side laner for this patch for good. But then you got Blaze that can side lade aswell that are open for picking in ranked insteed of her.
Time will tell if they rise in winrates this patch. But one thing was clear last patch. Thier winrates was not healthy. They were both button tier healers together with Moralas and Ana and only 2% away from rock button where LILI hides.
They needed the buffs for sure.
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Yeah haha I was thinking that. They are quite good buffs for the hero as a whole. Reduced her mana tension, improved her cleanse, improved the root. They buffed her strongest build though which is weird but okay thanks!!
Given they are all buffs and no nerfs I think itâs probably great news.
I like her rework by the way. I liked the old one but I also like the new one. Very strong in the right hands and a great counter to some of the most annoying heroes.
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Dang, those wm buffs are spicy. I think im going to destroy the world and cure cancer at the same time now.
Also poor guiding light. I already thought it was really meh but now radiance does almost the same thing it does 
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If it had real mana costs then it wouldnât be a problem. And/or it wouldnât hurt if slowing sands started small in size and grew like aniviaâs in LoL
R2 - Slowing Sands
Cooldown: 5 seconds
5 Mana per second
Summon a sand vortex that Slows enemies by 10% every 0.25 seconds, up to 70%.
??
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Guiding light is kind of sleeper OP if you stick it on illidan or some heavy dive hero. Thatâs an interesting point on radiance though.
Really wish guiding light also increased the targets healing recieved or just put it on an earlier tier. I just have a hard time getting more value out of the talent then the other 20 choices outside of specific niches.
Yeah very competitive Tier. All good choices to be honest in the right circumstance.
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They have nerfed top 2 bans Reh and Jo, which is good.
Feel like Valla needs a nerf maybe Stukov, not sure GulâDan needed a buff.
The less used talents.
Remember when they nerfed âAcid drenched mandiblesâ because it was too good? Well.
Yeah, but she really didnât need the damage. 2 charges of E is pretty good by istelf.
There are too many so. Never.
What? like what? What problems?
Flying pigs.
Never.
He was the #2 tank, behind only Johanna. I donât think he needed help.
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Because people play for dings and kills instead of xp and camps.
Iâve never had mana problems from sand ult. 5 per second is nothing
Letâs assume a 20 second long teamfight with no canceling of ult. Itâs ONLY 100 mana over those 20 seconds. Late game thatâs NOTHING. Even at level 10 that is NOTHING. Even at level 8 when she gets it, thatâs nothing
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cool, another patch with no butcher buffs even alarak got some stuff no fresh 
this time
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